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Southern Comfort Kitchen, which serves all manner of NOLA cuisine from gumbo to BBQ shrimp, will graduate from the food truck business to the brick-and-mortar world in 2018 with a Castro Valley restaurant. (Photo courtesy of Southern Comfort Kitchen)

SoCo Kitchen’s owners — three brothers with Louisiana roots — are just now starting the design and planning work, so they are looking at early 2018 before the roux darkens at 3571 Castro Valley Blvd., a former Pizza Hut.

If you haven’t come across this trio yet, they have a full lineup of food truck events just ahead, including Street Eats in Castro Valley, San Lorenzo and Stoneridge; Off the Grid in Hayward, South Shore Alameda and the Oakland Museum; Food Truck Mafia at Bishop Ranch; and lots more.

The lawsuit from Chloe Caras, filed in D.C. Superior Court, seeks $4 million in damages from the "Top Chef" alum, his company Mike Isabella Concepts and four of his business partners: Taha Ismail, Yohan Allender, George Pagonis and Nicholas Pagonis.